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Dismissal of teacher was clumsy

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Monday April 29, 2013 6:19 AM

Having graduated my four children from Bishop Watterson High School,
I wanted to weigh in on the dispute over teacher Carla Hale’s dismissal.

The way in which this dismissal was handled was not good.

Hale should have been contacted and told that the school had knowledge of her current living
arrangements, and been given the choice to change them, which she undoubtably would have
refused.

Had a heterosexual teacher been living in an arrangement outside of marriage, he or she would
have the same option.

Hale was prompted by her brother to place her personal information in her mother’s obituary, in
effect telling anyone who read it what her present living conditions are. To be “so broadsided” by
the outcome seems highly unlikely to me.

I wish Hale and her partner well, and she probably can be hired tomorrow at any nonparochial
school in this city with her experience.